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Eighties soft-toned vocalist Richard “Dimples” Areas topped the R&B graphs with the globe weary-toned mid-tempo groover “If It Ain’t A VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR, It’s Another” using its everyman spoken section. Areas can be known for “She’s Got Documents on Me,” a radio-aired monitor from his Dimples LP (released like a …

With her lone hit “I UNDERSTAND (YOU DO NOT Love Me FORGET ABOUT),” singer Barbara George documented among New Orleans R&B’s definitive crossover smashes. Blessed Barbara Ann Smith within the Crescent City’s Ninth Ward on August 16, 1942, she started singing as a teenager in her Baptist cathedral choir and …